The Days After
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The year 2021 marked the hundredth anniversary of the premiere of Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. at the National Theatre in Prague. It heralded the emergence of a thread of science-fiction themes in Čapek’s novels and plays, which are still relevant today. His drama The White Plague has taken on a special urgency in light of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Both plays warn of the ethical and existential dilemmas of modern civilisation in the form of global threats linked to the negative effects of machines and technology, totalitarianism, armaments and pandemics.
Description
The publication provides reflections these two Čapek’s plays from different points of view and the vantage point of up to a century. The first section contains eleven scholarly papers dedicated to the theatrical and historiographical presentation of the staging, translations and reception of Čapek’s dramatic texts in the interwar and post-war periods. The second section offers a contemporary view on both plays, which are still finding their way to today’s stages. The final part of the publication reflects on both of Čapek’s plays primarily from the perspective of what precedes or remains the performance of a theatrical work, especially on the visual level.
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